U.S. Government Says Al-Awlaki's Death Biggest Victory Since bin Laden's Killing
U.S. drone strikes killed wanted al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki Friday morning in southern Yemen.
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U.S. drone strikes killed wanted al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki Friday morning in southern Yemen.
President Barack Obama says that unlike first lady Michelle Obama, he's not dying to escape the White House to go shopping at Target.
State Sen. Ulysses Currie never disclosed he was being paid by a grocery store chain as he pressed the head of the Maryland State Highway Administration to install traffic lights near the company's stores, the highway chief testified during the lawmaker's bribery trial on Wednesday.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said he will lead a march in Washington next month in support of President Barack Obama's jobs plan -- and he dismissed blacks who criticize Obama over high black unemployment as having backed Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008.
Call it housecleaning, downsizing, or streamlining, the target is city spending. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is rolling up her sleeves, and she's hired a company to help with the heavy lifting.
Maryland's attorney general says a 73-year-old Severna Park man is the first to be charged criminally under the state's Critical Area law.
Washington County officials are putting $800,000 in county funds toward a senior center project at Hagerstown Community College.
President Barack Obama plans to tell students Wednesday in a back-to-school message that America needs their passion and ideas in these tough economic times.
Postal worker unions take a stand against proposed cutbacks. The unions are rallying in support of a bill that gives the U.S. Postal Service access to billions of dollars in pre-paid pension accounts.
President Barack Obama was joined by former President Bill Clinton on the golf course in a friendly contest of first duffers who've known the pressures of office and the joys of relieving them on the links.
Sen. Ulysses Currie is accused of using his influence to benefit a grocery store chain for which he worked as a consultant.
President Obama uses Baltimore as an example of why the federal government should reform No Child Left Behind.
For the first time, service members can be openly gay in uniform.
Maryland lawmakers appear to be moving closer to a gas tax increase, despite voter disapproval.
After nearly three hours of angry debate, the D.C. Council voted Tuesday to raise income taxes for the district's wealthiest residents, a last-minute move intended to soften the blow of a previously approved new tax on municipal bonds.
